Task 1. "Apache Security" - This covers a multitude of sins; especially
once you start to drag in PHP. This needs a lot of amplification, and if I
get time, I'll revisit it. How about "applying for and installing an SSL
certificate"?

Task 2. "BIND  Security" - Ditto. This needs to be re-written in terms of
"allow-query", "allow-transfer", etc. Do we want to cover TSIGS? How about
split DNS configuration for DMZ firewalls?

Task 3 - .htaccess files - Ah, now we're getting to the detail of Apache
security. Many/most systems run with AllowOverride set to none, these days,
since reading a chain of .htaccess files kills performance. We need to
cover allow, deny and order directives in the httpd.conf file as well as
.htaccess files.

Task 4 - Authentication - Needs to be defined more tightly. Authentication
alone can be done using mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm, mod_auth_pam, mod_auth_ldap
(for Apache 2.x) and doubtless a bunch of others. Where do we stop?

Task 8 - "chrooted applications" - Should really be "configure BIND to run
in a chrooted environment" or something specific. There are lots of twists
to running applications in general in a chroot jail.

Also, we have nothing about database (MySQL, PostgreSQL) security here.

Best,

--- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]


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